FROM THE EDITOR.

• Author: Cruickshank, Paul

In this month's feature article, Lorena Atiyas-Lvovsky, Eitan Azani, Michael Barak, and Assaf Moghadam find that "jihadi rhetoric is rarely translated into violent attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets... The relative dearth of successful operations, however, has not deterred global jihadi organizations from regularly leveraging the Palestinian issue for political gain, and in order to reinforce their stature as powerful actors in the Middle Eastern and global arenas. Despite jihadi lip service to the Palestinian cause, support for global jihad among Arab Israelis and Palestinians has remained relatively low. Physical and ideological barriers erected by Israel and the Jewish community have so far limited the capacity of global jihadi actors to operate against Israel and the Jewish community."

Christopher Faulkner, Raphael Parens, and Marcel Plichta explore the future of the Wagner Group in Africa after the death of its founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin. They write: "Wagner personnel in Africa appear poised to carry on their original missions given the importance of the continent to Russia's broader strategic ambitions. Though the mercenary mutiny and Prigozhin's death may lead clients to raise questions about what a continued...